The Oakstone Advantage

The Oakstone team partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include UCSF, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Our continuing education programs include:

Board Reviews

Stay current and earn credits while maximizing your performance on certification or recertification exams.

Clinical Updates

Ensure the highest quality of patient care with the latest guidelines and treatment options in your specialty.

Journal Reviews

Become a member of the elite journal club and stay ahead of changes with top-quality, unbiased journal summaries.

Audio Companions

Expand your breadth of knowledge with popular self-assessment programs with focused discussions and commentary.

Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce to the insurance, financial and health care industries. A.D.A.M. is a business unit of Ebix focused on providing innovative multimedia health content trusted by best-in-class websites, consumer health portals, health care, biomedical device, pharmaceutical, and academic organizations.

As a part of A.D.A.M., Oakstone products will be marketed within the vast domestic and international network of hospitals, educational institutions and physician medical associations. In addition, the Oakstone team will have access to the extensive spectrum of A.D.A.M. content services providing the ability to leverage its rich media production services to elevate the quality of our products and increase the offerings available to our physician, dental and allied health care-based network of customers.

Major Brands

CMEinfo Doctors and dentists rely on CMEinfo to provide a range of unbiased and evidence-based content in the form of recorded medical conferences and accompanying materials, which can be accessed online or in CD or DVD formats. Every year, CMEinfo records, edits and packages these programs across 40+ medical specialties and subspecialties, giving doctors and dentists the freedom to “attend” important conferences without travel and time away from their practice.

Practical Reviews Every month, our experienced physician-editors scour hundreds of medical journals in search of the most relevant articles, delivering expert summaries and audio commentary to computers, phones and mobile devices. Practical Reviews keeps doctors and dentists current, saving them precious time while putting a world of valuable information at their fingertips.

Dental Decks Capitalizing on the simplicity and effectiveness of flash cards, Dental Decks provides dental and dental hygiene students with a fast, convenient, proven way to prep for Dental and Dental Hygiene Board exams. Cards are available online or in physical form, organized around relevant topics and designed to be an affordable, highly useful tool.

Personal Best Personal Best promotes health and safety in the workplace through employee wellness programs and publications that educate, encourage and enrich. We deliver a range of generic and custom-branded wellness communication tools in the form of newsletters, brochures, posters, kits, journals and other materials.

Major Partnerships

Oakstone partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Click here to view the complete list of universities, hospitals and association partners.

The Oakstone Pledge

While we provide a vast array of continuing medical education materials, it is the quality of what we provide that makes us different. Our content is unbiased and evidence-based. We strive to work with highly experienced clinicians and experts in their fields, and partner with some of the best medical institutions in the world. Through our products, CMEinfo and Practical Reviews, we provide the best in recorded course reviews, clinical updates, journal summaries and conferences. You can be confident that the CME materials developed by Oakstone are of the absolute highest quality. Our reputation depends on it.

Mission Statement

Oakstone Medical Publishing, LLC (Oakstone) develops and publishes medical and dental education materials that are timely, relevant, and meaningful to clinical practice in multiple specialties for health care and dental providers. Each activity provides practical, concise updated information allowing the provider to incorporate new practice methodologies (or eliminate existing practice methodologies) and to improve professional understanding of various health-related issues addressed in their practice while enhancing their competence and performance for purposes of improved patient care and improved quality of health care.

The continuing education (CE) programs by Oakstone are designed to develop and disseminate medical and dental educational materials allowing health care and dental providers to select their learning format and then learn at a convenient time, pace, and place.

The Oakstone Advantage

The Oakstone team partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include UCSF, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Our continuing education programs include:

Board Reviews

Stay current and earn credits while maximizing your performance on certification or recertification exams.

Clinical Updates

Ensure the highest quality of patient care with the latest guidelines and treatment options in your specialty.

Journal Reviews

Become a member of the elite journal club and stay ahead of changes with top-quality, unbiased journal summaries.

Audio Companions

Expand your breadth of knowledge with popular self-assessment programs with focused discussions and commentary.

Ebix is a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce to the insurance, financial and health care industries. A.D.A.M. is a business unit of Ebix focused on providing innovative multimedia health content trusted by best-in-class websites, consumer health portals, health care, biomedical device, pharmaceutical, and academic organizations.

As a part of A.D.A.M., Oakstone products will be marketed within the vast domestic and international network of hospitals, educational institutions and physician medical associations. In addition, the Oakstone team will have access to the extensive spectrum of A.D.A.M. content services providing the ability to leverage its rich media production services to elevate the quality of our products and increase the offerings available to our physician, dental and allied health care-based network of customers.

Major Brands

CMEinfo Doctors and dentists rely on CMEinfo to provide a range of unbiased and evidence-based content in the form of recorded medical conferences and accompanying materials, which can be accessed online or in CD or DVD formats. Every year, CMEinfo records, edits and packages these programs across 40+ medical specialties and subspecialties, giving doctors and dentists the freedom to “attend” important conferences without travel and time away from their practice.

Practical Reviews Every month, our experienced physician-editors scour hundreds of medical journals in search of the most relevant articles, delivering expert summaries and audio commentary to computers, phones and mobile devices. Practical Reviews keeps doctors and dentists current, saving them precious time while putting a world of valuable information at their fingertips.

Dental Decks Capitalizing on the simplicity and effectiveness of flash cards, Dental Decks provides dental and dental hygiene students with a fast, convenient, proven way to prep for Dental and Dental Hygiene Board exams. Cards are available online or in physical form, organized around relevant topics and designed to be an affordable, highly useful tool.

Personal Best Personal Best promotes health and safety in the workplace through employee wellness programs and publications that educate, encourage and enrich. We deliver a range of generic and custom-branded wellness communication tools in the form of newsletters, brochures, posters, kits, journals and other materials.

Major Partnerships

Oakstone partners with many of the smartest minds in medicine to deliver some of the most reliable, most trusted, most comprehensive educational content available. Our partners include Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins and many more. Click here to view the complete list of universities, hospitals and association partners.

The Oakstone Pledge

While we provide a vast array of continuing medical education materials, it is the quality of what we provide that makes us different. Our content is unbiased and evidence-based. We strive to work with highly experienced clinicians and experts in their fields, and partner with some of the best medical institutions in the world. Through our products, CMEinfo and Practical Reviews, we provide the best in recorded course reviews, clinical updates, journal summaries and conferences. You can be confident that the CME materials developed by Oakstone are of the absolute highest quality. Our reputation depends on it.

Mission Statement

Oakstone Medical Publishing, LLC (Oakstone) develops and publishes medical and dental education materials that are timely, relevant, and meaningful to clinical practice in multiple specialties for health care and dental providers. Each activity provides practical, concise updated information allowing the provider to incorporate new practice methodologies (or eliminate existing practice methodologies) and to improve professional understanding of various health-related issues addressed in their practice while enhancing their competence and performance for purposes of improved patient care and improved quality of health care.

The continuing education (CE) programs by Oakstone are designed to develop and disseminate medical and dental educational materials allowing health care and dental providers to select their learning format and then learn at a convenient time, pace, and place.

Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology

Stay current on the latest advances in Gastroenterology with our unbiased expert reviews from today's leading medical journals. Ideal for MOC.

If your primary viewing mode will be on a computer or tablet, we recommend the Online Video package. In addition to online access, you will receive a USB with MP4 files. Use the USB to watch offline or import into iTunes and other media players and then synch to your mobile device, laptop or desktop. Plus you save $130 including standard shipping charges vs the DVD package.

Online + Audio CD + Print

1 Year - $549.00

2 Years - $1,098.00

Online Only

1 Year - $499.00

2 Years - $998.00

Auto Renew

AUTO-RENEWAL SERVICE: After your initial subscription term, we will charge your credit card annually in time to lock in your benefits. You will be charged the standard renewal rate. We’ll also send you a Renewal Savings Acknowledgement. If you have any questions regarding your Auto-Renewal Service, please contact our Customer Service Team at 800-633-4743.

Get Connected Online

Practical Reviews is just that—practical, expert reviews of the most relevant articles from leading medical journals in Gastroenterology.

Connect to Research Summaries from Leading Medical Journals

Our expert medical faculty conduct a comprehensive review of hundreds of articles from current leading medical journals so you don't have to. Our knowledge leaders summarize the most relevant medical research for you to review at your convenience and add commentary with perspective for applying these findings in your own practice.

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16 articles summarized in each issue, each with an expert audio review

Did You Know?

Articles in each issue of Practical Reviews are selected, vetted and summarized by expert panelists who are some of the leading practitioners and instructors in their fields.

The free Practical Reviews app provides easy search capabilities across 125,000+ articles to aid you in your research needs.

Coordinating Editor

William Steinberg, MD

The Rockville Internal Medicine Group

Rockville, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

George Washington University

Washington, DC

Reviewers

Aline Charabaty, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Director of the IBD Center

Medstar-Georgetown University Hospital

Washington DC

Raymond S. Koff, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Farmington, CT

Ronald L. Koretz, MD

Emeritus Professor, Clinical Medicine

Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Department of Medicine

Sylmar, CA

J. Mark Lawson, MD, FACP, FACG

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

Eastern Virginia Medicine Center

Norfolk, VA

Gastrointestinal Specialists of Tidewater

Suffolk, VA

Timothy O. Lipman, MD

Retired Chief, GI-Hepatology-Nutrition Section

Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Professor of Clinical Medicine

Georgetown University Medical Center

Washington, DC

Michael M. Phillips, MD

Professor Emeritus

The George Washington University School of Medicine

Bethesda, MD

Ingram Roberts, MD, MBA

Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine

Temple University School of Medicine

Gastroenterologist, Crozer Health Network

Drexel Hill, PA

Richard K. Sterling, MD, MSc, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD

VCU Hepatology Professor of Medicine

Chief of Hepatology

Program Director, Transplant Hepatology

Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Richmond, VA

Roy K. H. Wong, MD, FACP, MACG, FASGE, AGAF

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Gastroenterology Services

Bethesda, MD

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Annals of Internal Medicine

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Digestive Diseases & Sciences

Gastroenterology

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Gut

Hepatology

Journal of the American Medical Association

Journal of Hepatology

Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition

Lancet

The New England Journal of Medicine

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Surgical Endoscopy

Statement of Need

CME is integrated into the process for improving professional practice with educational strategies implemented to remove, overcome or address barriers to physician change. Physicians are unable to consistently integrate new information into their practices because of the ways new medical knowledge is structured and disseminated, and the time it takes to completely scan for new information. Practical Reviews publications select and translate peer-reviewed literature for practical use, therefore diminishing the barrier of time.

Intended Audience

Gastroenterologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.

Special Prerequisites for Participants

There are no prerequisites for participants.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

Explain evidence of the safety and efficacy of certain procedures

Evaluate where controversy exists, appraise the evidence, and assess advantages and disadvantages of the methods in question

Discuss controversies, advantages and disadvantages of diagnostic and treatment plans

Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones, selecting and employing the best of all available courses of treatment

Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems

Accreditation

Oakstone Publishing, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Per Issue for Practical Reviews

Oakstone Publishing, LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 4 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is also eligible for 4 credit hours in Category 2-B of the Continuing Medical Education Program of the American Osteopathic Association, provided it is completed in its entirety.

Estimated time to complete each issue: 4 hours.

ABIM MOC Points

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Credit Designation Per Review

Oakstone Publishing, LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This material is also eligible for 0.25 credit hours in Category 2-B of the Continuing Medical Education Program of the American Osteopathic Association, provided it is completed in its entirety.

Estimated time to complete each review: 15 minutes

Policy on Faculty and Provider Disclosure

It is the policy of Oakstone Publishing, LLC that the faculty and provider disclose real or apparent conflict of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity, and also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation. Oakstone Publishing, LLC has established policies in place that will identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosures will be made in the course handouts.

Disclaimer

The opinions and recommendations expressed by the faculty and other experts whose input is included in this program are their own. This enduring material is produced for educational purposes only. Use of the Oakstone Publishing, LLC name implies review of educational format design and approach. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combination of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings and adverse effects before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.